For want of some action the one split into two and the two split further taking on various and numerous manifestations, denominations, forms, names, and tags. Maya came to be. But Maya is necessary to give souls the experiences that they desire to have.
In "The Little Soul and the Sun" by Neale Donald Walsch, published by Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 1998, a Little Soul "Knowing who it was was not enough" for him. He wanted to be it. He told God, "I want to feel what it is like to be the Light." He asks God to experience what he already was, the Light.
God tells him, "There is no easy way for you to experience yourself as who you are since there is nothing that you are not. Got it?"
The Little Soul too went, "Huh?" He too was confused now.
Then God said, "Since you cannot see yourself as the Light when you are in the Light, we'll surround you with darkness." He continued, "In order to experience anything at all, the exact opposite of it will appear" and he went on to explain the opposites of things. Giving him a list of ways he could be special and having the Little Soul add to it, the Little Soul chooses the part where he gets to forgive, saying it wants to experience it for itself. God grants the Little Soul's wish. A Friendly Soul then steps in to help the Little Soul realize the experience. When asked why it volunteered the Friendly Soul tells the Little Soul "Don't you remember? Oh, we have danced together, you and me many times. Through the eons and across all the ages have danced. Across all the time and in many places have we played together. You just don't remember. We have both been through all of it. We have been the male and female, the good and the bad, we have both been the victim and the villain of it. Thus we have come together, you and me many times before, each bringing to the other the exact and perfect opportunity to express and to experience who we really are. I will come into your next lifetime and be the bad one this time. I will do something really terrible and then you can experience yourself as the one who forgives." But the Friendly Soul tells the Little Soul that in having to do that unkind thing it would have to slow down its vibration and become very heavy.
And so it has to take or rather manufacture the ideal gross material physical body, the Asudha Degam, from the tatvas, to experience what it came for. At the end of the day, it leaves behind the shed that had served as a dwelling, to return to begin another journey full of other experiences. The cycle goes on and on till it has gone through all the experiences as God and the Little Soul together list out including being kind, gentle, creative, patient, helpful, sharing, friendly, considerate, and forgiving.